The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll
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of this Section. If you have not CLEARLY understood all I have
said, go no further, but read it over and over again, till you DO understand it. After that is once mastered, you will find all the rest quite easy. It will save a little trouble, in doing the other Propositions, if we agree to leave out the word "Cakes" altogether. I find it convenient to call the whole class of Things, for which the cupboard is intended, the 'UNIVERSE.' Thus we might have begun this business by saying "Let us take a Universe of Cakes." (Sounds nice, doesn't it?) Of course any other Things would have done just as well as Cakes. We might make Propositions about "a Universe of Lizards", or even "a Universe of Hornets". (Wouldn't THAT be a charming Universe to live in?) So far, then, we have learned that ----------- | | | | 1 | | | | | ----------- means "some x and y," i.e. "some new are nice." I think you will see without further explanation, that |
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